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I suppose most web sites out there are running on
some Unix system, but there's a small and yet
tenacious group of system managers that cling to
VMS, mostly because it's so robust and reliable.
Plus it offers mundane features like a help facility
that's actually useful (which is accessed by typing
HELP, of all things).

The best web server package for VMS is OSU WEB,
written by Dave Jones at Ohio State University,
it's free, and it has excellent support through
a fairly active mailing list (vms-web-daemon-request@kjsl.com
to subscribe).

Like Post Office, it is a commercial product for which
you have to shell out some cash, but their support
team is top notch, and PMDF runs on several platforms,
including VMS and several Unixes. They (Innosoft) can
be reached at http://www.innosoft.com/.

It's my understanding that Above.NET has continued to improve its connectivity, and now have a private OC-3 across the country all the way to their own router peering at MAE-EAST, as well as more high speed links within the Bay area to other major peering points, such as CIX.

There is seemingly an endless supply of books about 'The Web', so it's
hard to get excited about any one in particular. Philip Greenspun's "Database
Backed Web Sites: the thinking person's guide to web publishing", on the other
hand, is very good.

As opposed to being a compendium of HTML tags and pre-made home pages
"so you can be online tonight!", the book's aim is to make the reader aware
that there's more to the web than cute Java scripts and silly animated GIFs.

The main idea is that a static web site resembles a coffee table book
with pretty pictures: you look at it once or twice, then it's just taking
space.

Philip explains how to create web sites with databases behind them to
manage the content, provide interactive discussion forums where the users
provide a lot of the content, and help analyze the server logs to see what your
users are doing while visiting your web site.